Effect and advantage of orally taking Chinese herbal medicine for treatment of lung cancer / 中国中药杂志

ABSTRACT

Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers and of the leading causes of human death worldwide. Most of patients with lung cancer are diagnosed at advanced stages as it is difficult to be detected in the early stage. Radio/chemotherapy serves as the major method for treatment of lung cancer in conventional medicine without satisfactory efficacy, but with a number of adverse effects. So, it is very popular in mainland China to employ integrated treatment of radio/chemotherapy and Chinese herbal medicine. Through analysis of the published reports in the past two decades, it was found that orally taking Chinese herbal medicine could significantly improve quality of life and body resistance, relieve clinical painfulness, reduce adverse effects of radio/chemotherapy, and prolong life-span of the patient alive with carcinoma in the body.